You'll need the metal electrical connectors as well for the main connectors on the car and also the plastic connectors, i don't know the part numbers for these as i got hold of some elsewhere, if you need some connectors and can't find any let me know as i have a load of spare ones.

I can provide the metal connectors for the lights and the ones which go on the vehicle loom, also i have plastic connectors for the lights and also footwell lights if anyone is interested.

Small modification to the wiring to make life easier on the drivers door, the looms i have made are slightly different in that instead of going up to the locking switch for the earth its easier to take out pin 2 on the door controller and put in the earth from the puddle light loom into pin 2 and then solder the previous earth going to pin 2 to the new earth cable.

Hope that makes sense.

I mean either way doesn't matter but its just whats easier.............

Drivers side you need to put the grey/white wire into pin 1 on the grey connector, and then take pin 2 out and solder it onto brown wire (which i have made a cut out for) and then put the connector on the loom into pin 2.

Can I thank Robin again for his excellent looms. Fitted both sets of Puddle lights in about hour and half this morning. Would have been less time if I could have used power tools to cut the hole in the door card for the puddle light. But as my dad was in bed after a night shift this was a no no and good old elbow grease had to suffice.

They work an absolute dream and I didn't break any clips on the door.

I did find when fitting the white puddle light, that if you use the plastic heat shield from the red warning light as a template, that you can cut the hole for the puddle light, it is roughly the correct size for the lense. It is actually slightly too small, but you can trim to exact fit. It means though that if you don't have any superglue handy when you do it, then the light clips in properly and doesn't drop out.

I did find when fitting the white puddle light, that if you use the plastic heat shield from the red warning light as a template, that you can cut the hole for the puddle light, it is roughly the correct size for the lense. It is actually slightly too small, but you can trim to exact fit. It means though that if you don't have any superglue handy when you do it, then the light clips in properly and doesn't drop out.

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I did my passenger door on Saturday, all went well, I used the existing warning light hole to make a cardboard template, so again no glue required here.

What didn't go so well was my attempt to install LED door release illumination, it didn't work. But I now also have an issue with my passenger window switch not lighting up or working. The Window and everything else works fine, VCDS doesn't see the switch operate at all. Test meter indicates that the loom is OK and the switch does seem to work (well it gives different resistance values depending on which way it is moved).

I will try a hard reset this week by dropping the battery off for 30 minutes and see if that brings it back to life. I didn't check everything before I took the door apart though, so it could be un-related.

I would suspect that the earth connection from the original 32pin block to your window controller is not connected properly.

As a matter of interest, can you open the passenger window from the driver's door?

Also where did you take the feed from for the door release LEDs?

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I used the pin as shown in my wiring diagrams for a 2005 (pin 14), I will take it all apart again next Saturday, to be honest my thoughts were that either the earth pin isn't making a good connection or that by using an LED (12v so no resistor) in place of what I assume is a 5W bulb on the OEM solution, that I have managed to trip protection or worse blown an output stage in the module (I'm hoping there is protection on the circuit).

I wired the LED between pin 14 and shared the earth on pin 2 with the warning/puddle lights.

The Window works fine from the Drivers switch.

I did have to tighten the door puddle contacts up at the plug at one point, due to disassembling it a few times, they worked fine the first few times that I unplugged the door from the module, but then threw a circuit fault in VCDS.

I'm confused - have you replaced the 5w bulb in the lights Robin provided, or have you tried to wire in the red leds above the interior door handle?

If you're wiring in the red LEDs all you need is a feed from the interior illumination circuit.

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No I have added a 12v high intensity 3mm LED to the interior door handle and used the pin out on the module (14) that is used by the OEM door handle illumination (when fitted) but I suspect that is done using a 5w bulb on the OEM option and not an LED.

Also, just wanted to say thankyou to Robin for my looms that arrived today. Very well made, almost OE quality.:thumbsup:

I've fitted the puddle lights already, the footwell lights will have to wait until the weekend!

Just for reference, mine is a 2008 car, and the plug in the drivers door had no earth on pin 19, so all I had to do was plug Robins loom into the empty chambers. Pin 18 for the live feed, and pin 19 for the earth, same on the passenger side. No soldering needed at all.

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